Summer is just around the corner. When talking about how hot it is, you can only use the word “hot” so many times before it becomes meaningless. So here are some other words and phrases to describe just how much like an oven it feels. Some of the following words can only be found in an unabridged dictionary.
Heat has several different meanings. As a noun, it is the condition or quality of being hot. The height or stress of an action or condition is heat. Passion, an intensity of feeling or reaction, is another meaning of heat.
WORDS
adurent – This is a 17th-century term that means burning or hot and dry. It could be used to describe a heat wave, especially during a drought.
baking – describing weather when very hot and dry
besweat – covered with sweat
birsle – This is a Scottish term that means to scorch (the surface) with radiant heat.
blistering – extremely intense or severe heat
boiling – to an extreme extent, such as boiling hot
calefy – to heat
canicular – of or pertaining to the dog days, the period between early July and early September when the hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere
fervid – very hot, giving off intense heat; burning
fire-fanged – damaged by excessive heat. This is now one of my favorite words.
forswat – covered with sweat
fracedo – putrefying heat
inferno – This word is used to describe hell; a place giving off intense heat
madid – This word means wet or moist and is perfect for describing the stickiness of Southern humidity.
mastiff days – Mastiff days are supposed to be even hotter and more miserable than dog days.
mooth – a Scottish word that means “exhausted by heat”
muck sweat – If you are in a much sweat, then you are sweating abundantly
oppressive – very hot with little or no wind
parch – to make dry, hot, or thirsty
roasting – exceedingly hot; scorching
scorcher – a day of extremely hot temperatures
searing – burning or scorching
sizzling – extremely hot
steamy – so hot the air feels as though it’s full of steam
sticky – humid, muggy
stifling – so hot it’s hard to breathe, very humid
sultry – very hot and humid; burning hot
torrid – oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air.
PHRASES
Could I stick my face in your deep-freeze for just a second?
Crank up that A.C. till it’s blowing snowballs.
Even Satan’s sweatin’ today.
Hot as H-E double toothpicks
Hot as the hinges on the gates of Hades
Hotter than H-E double hockey sticks
Hotter than hell and half of Georgia
Hotter than Satan’s house cat
I’m burning slap up.
I’m sweatin’ like a hog.
I’m wilting.
If it gets any hotter, I’ll have to take off stuff I really ought to keep on.
Is it hot enough for ya?
It must be 90 in the shade.
It’s hotter than blue blazes.
It’s hotter’n a blister bug in a pepper patch.
It’s like a steam bath out here.
It’s like walking through soup out here.
It’s not the heat—it’s the humidity.
It’s so hot the ice cream truck melted.
It’s so hot the swimming pool is boiling.
It’s a barn burner.
It’s a torcher.
It’s hot as Hades.
It’s hot enough to scald a lizard.
It’s hot enough to scald a loon.
It’s hotter than a stolen tamale.
It’s hotter than Dutch love.
It’s hotter than Georgia asphalt.
It’s hotter than six shades of hell.
It’s hotter than the devil’s armpits.
It’s hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell.
It’s like the training grounds for down below.
It’s like walking through soup out here.
It’s so hot the swimming pool is boiling.
It’s so humid it’s like getting punched in the face with a sauna.
Man, it’s hot as all get-out!
This one’s gonna be a scorcher.
You could fry an egg on the hood of that car.
You could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
You could have a stroke out here.
It’s hotter than a bully goat with a blowtorch.
It’s hotter than a jalapenos armpit.
13 Old-Timey Synonyms for ‘Hot’ to Bring Back This Summer (mentalfloss.com)
https://preply.com/en/blog/southern-sayings-about-the-heat/
https://www.southernliving.com/culture/southern-says-heat-humidity
https://www.southernthing.com/hotter-than-sayings-2568752959.html
